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As Today's Ann Curry predicted when she visited the refugee camps of Chad last month for NBC, President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan has been indicted on charges of war crimes by the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Both NBC and ABC covered the warrant for his arrest. That CBS did not mention it is true to form: of the 22 stories filed on the atrocities in Darfur by reporters on the three nightly newscasts over the past 30 months, just one has been filed by CBS.
The charges cover murder, rape, torture and ethnic cleansing but do not amount to genocide. NBC's Curry replayed the President's defense from her 2007 interview with him: "We can never target citizens. We have targeted rebels." ABC's David Wright told us that Bashir has ruled Sudan "with an iron fist" for 20 years. "It is not at all clear who would ever arrest Bashir. There is no international police force to enforce the indictment." For his part, Bashir told the court to "stir and drink" its indictment and revoked permission for international humanitarian organizations to work inside Sudan's borders. "Suffering is likely to increase," NBC's Curry foretold.
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